By Anthony Weiss LOS ANGELES (JTA) — According to Jewish tradition, the Torah is so sacred that even a single error made on a single letter renders the entire scroll unfit for use. And yet the Hebrew Bible — including the Torah, its first five books...

(JTA) — At least three people were killed in separate shootings at a JCC and a Jewish assisted-living facility in suburban Kansas City, Kan. One person was in police custody for the shootings on Sunday at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in...

By Hillel Kuttler BALTIMORE (JTA) — Rabbi Daniel Alter expects some added fervency during daily prayer services at the Denver Academy of Torah in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Alter, the academy’s head of school, recalls that when the Colorado...

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — In previous AIPAC vs. White House dustups, the pro-Israel lobbying group’s strategy was to speak softly and let Congress carry the big stick. But in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s face-off with the Obama...

NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox high school in New York City is allowing girls to wear tefillin. Rabbi Tully Harcsztark, principal of the SAR High School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, last month began to allow two female students to wear tefillin, or...

(JTA) — A French woman is suing the University of Oklahoma to recover a Nazi-looted painting that was taken from her father. Leone Meyer, the daughter of Raoul Meyer, a Jewish businessman in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France, is attempting to recover...